As is with all high minded writers......... published writers that is........officially published in a book or newspaper writers that is.............. [MORE]

cheyanne 

Aug 10, 2007 16:47

Kirsch has his own blog set up within six months. He's right about some things, and wrong about a lot.... [MORE]

Levari 

Jul 5, 2007 16:42

As print & online media continue to merge & mutate, it becomes increasingly difficult to make value judgements grounded on... [MORE]

Henry Gould 

Jun 29, 2007 08:31

Re: ethics. There are none insofar as the publishing world goes. Reviews are de facto blurb factories.

And people will read... [MORE]

Dan Schneider 

Jun 27, 2007 08:23

Over the last two years, I have read and enjoyed many blogs but all of them on and off, the... [MORE]

Anirudh Karnick 

Jun 27, 2007 08:00

What about the shills at Amazon booksellers? What category do they inhabit? There is number one reviewer, Harriet Klausner, whose...

Barbara Delaney 

Jun 19, 2007 20:34

Al the squabbling between bloggers and journalists - or in this case critics - obscures the real issue, which is... [MORE]

Ms Baroque 

Jun 16, 2007 19:32

Perhaps I am just quibbling, but I find a number of reviews in the London Review of Books tedious, overly... [MORE]

Anirudh Karnick 

Jun 27, 2007 08:11

A spirited debate has been raging over the bookblog, a medium soundly denounced by many literary critics, who condemn bookblogs... [MORE]

Bibliolatrist 

Jun 16, 2007 14:07

Although I have to agree that the analysis, especially the part about the length and language of blogs, can be... [MORE]

Marc André Bélanger 

Jun 15, 2007 12:41

I do not know what blogs Mr. Kirsch has been reading, but if he were to look around a little... [MORE]

Robert Archambeau 

Jun 14, 2007 17:07

Kirsch states that bloggers are upset with criticism of their blogs, while the articles that have appeared recently have been... [MORE]

harvey 

Jun 14, 2007 14:24

It's interesting that many any of the commentators who complain that Mr. Kirsch generalizes also generalize by not providing links... [MORE]

Bill 

Jun 14, 2007 13:13

I really don't accept your thesis that blogging provides bite-sized reviewing; if anything blog reviews have lengthier reviews than what... [MORE]

Robert Nagle 

Jun 14, 2007 12:23

Unfortunately the newspaper book reviewers have to come to terms with the fact that print journallism is struggling to stay... [MORE]

Gerry Young 

Jun 14, 2007 10:52

I don't think we should confuse "reviews" with "literary criticism". Reviews run from the small town weekly up to the... [MORE]

rpm 

Jun 14, 2007 10:19

"Those who can, do, and those who can't, blog?" Cute as hell, but also stupid as hell. Plenty of "real"... [MORE]

Kelley Dupuis 

Jun 14, 2007 08:38

As a British reviewer, writer & blogger I enjoyed this article very much. I agree with a lot that you... [MORE]

PD Smith 

Jun 14, 2007 07:14

Although I agree that there could be more book reviews available (especially as an LA Times reader disgusted by the... [MORE]

Katya Johann 

Jun 14, 2007 02:28

Yet another 'the internet is bad for books' rant (print = good, internet = bad) without evidence or an understanding... [MORE]

Duncan 

Jun 14, 2007 00:19

Among the many oversights in this piece, Mr.Kirsch, let me point out three:

"Often isolated and inexperienced, usually longing to break... [MORE]

Chandrahas Choudhury 

Jun 14, 2007 00:14

Literally, a person can post whatever they want to on a blog. Someone who blogs in not infected with a... [MORE]

Justin Dobbs 

Jun 13, 2007 21:25

In fact, despite what the bloggers themselves believe, the future of literary culture does not lie with blogs — or... [MORE]

Tammy Everts 

Jun 13, 2007 19:20

Dear Mr. Kirsch,

While I agree with many of the points that you make in your article on literary blogs, and... [MORE]

Reginald Shepherd 

Jun 13, 2007 19:11

"The blog form, that miscellany of observations, opinions, and links, is not well-suited to writing about literature..."

Adam Kirsch's spurious rhetorical... [MORE]

Steven Augustine 

Jun 13, 2007 15:11

Don't get around much, do you, Kirsch? I won't trouble you with links to the many worthwhile blogs devoted to... [MORE]

Mark J. McPherson 

Jun 13, 2007 15:10

Oddly enough, I found the link to this article on a literary blog. While I agree that perhaps literary blogging... [MORE]

Jessica 

Jun 13, 2007 14:28

Dear CR Beha, So, using the "I know it when I see it" approach to what constitutes a blog and what... [MORE]

Jonny Diamond 

Jun 13, 2007 14:10

I've heard these arguments before.

So, only print reviewers are capable of an intellectual discourse on literature? If bloggers are so... [MORE]

Wendy 

Jun 13, 2007 12:57

Iam leading publisher from India. My experience is very very bad , most leading newspaper of India stoped to review... [MORE]

Ramesh Raghuvanshi 

Jun 13, 2007 11:37

Good literary criticism is a highly complex form of civilized discourse, and is generally not to be found in blogs.... [MORE]

Tom 

Jun 13, 2007 11:15

As is oversimplification, particularly in the assumption that 'bloggers' and your rarefied 'professional writers' are in any way separate camps.... [MORE]

Matt 

Jun 13, 2007 10:17

If the "literary" bloggers represent a dead end, the fact that their blogs are filled with the stones of ridicule,... [MORE]

Tim Barrus 

Jun 13, 2007 10:01

Literary criticism is only worth having if it at least strives to be literary in its own right, with a... [MORE]

Pamela 

Jun 13, 2007 09:22

Bloggers are essentially tastemakers, not reviewers. Bloggers' book commentary can be capsulized as, "I like this, I don't like that,... [MORE]

Richard S. Wheeler 

Jun 13, 2007 08:54

Precisely because "literature is not news the way politics is news" (though I think a lot of people would consider... [MORE]

Rohan Maitzen 

Jun 13, 2007 08:50

Mr Kirsch is a thoughful, useful and reliable commentator on books but alas his media overview is less than that.... [MORE]

Robert Birnbaum 

Jun 13, 2007 08:34

As some of the very best reviews are available online or in print where is the dichotomy? [MORE]

G. Roberts 

Jun 13, 2007 08:24

Adam Kirsch mixes up two (or more) separate issues. Given that bloggers can in no way be blamed for the... [MORE]

R Campbell 

Jun 13, 2007 07:33

One obviously can say more in five thousand words than one can in fifty.

However one can also create a work... [MORE]

Shalom Freedman 

Jun 13, 2007 05:13

Shalom Freedman is himself a case in point! I have read many of Shalom Freedman's reviews on Amazon.com over the... [MORE]

Randy Deutsch 

Jun 13, 2007 23:41

That this is a blog...right?

Perhaps this appears in print somewhere, but I am reading it online, and can comment on... [MORE]

John 

Jun 13, 2007 02:04

Adam Kirsch denies that literature is like news. However:

"Literature is news that stays news."

Ezra Pound, "ABC of Reading" [1934] chapter... [MORE]

Jonathan Vos Post 

Jun 13, 2007 12:09

An article that is published online and made available for comments does not a blog make. The distinction isn't just... [MORE]

CR Beha 

Jun 13, 2007 12:12

However, Kirsch is casting aspersion on all blogs when, as you say, he is referring to a handful of them.... [MORE]

John 

Jun 13, 2007 13:45

It doesn't greatly matter anymore. Current-day Americans will not read good books in any case, and so it scarcely... [MORE]

Abner Furd 

Jun 12, 2007 18:48